Thanks for giving this young woman an opportunity to share about her books and for highlighting the others. It's good for parents to know there are choices out there!
There are worthwhile reads! Parents need to first learn about them and then introduce them to their children. Some "hidden gems" that are not likely to be on the shelf of your local public library that I highly recommend: Created for Work: Practical Insights for Young Men by Bob Schultz. Excellent to read aloud to your 8-12 year old boys, but, in truth, the entire family would enjoy and benefit from this book! Others by the same author include Practical Wisdom for Becoming a Man and Practical Happiness: A Young Man's Guide to a Contented Life. Boys of Grit Who Changed the World and Boys of Grit Who Became Men of Honour by Archer Wallace. Biographical sketches of real people who overcame difficult circumstances to do great things. Christian Heroes Then & Now series by Janet and Geoff Benge. Eric Liddell, Nate Saint, George Muller, Corrie ten Boom, Gladys Aylward, and Amy Carmichael are people to which you must introduce your children. This series is a good place to start!
@@WanderingExistence as the woman in video said, "read the books." As a parent, look at these books she published before your kids do. Better yet, check out all books they are exposed to now.
A Thomas Sowell book would have been amazing to read as a child, especially to then hear him speak about economics in plain english when you're old enough to understand the basics
We won't have a country, our great Republic, if we let the leftists indoctrinate our kids/generation in 40 years. It is happening in the Republic of Vietnam. The commies invaded my country and indoctrinated the people along with ruled w/ an iron fist for more than 40 years. Now the current generation of kids are just 'red cows' blindly obey their jungle laws; to the point that they had no effin clues that they are being oppressed. They all had 1 phrase that the commies love to hear "who cares about politics" That is a very sad and painful thing to see/hear from kids to adults in any cultures. Parents, I beg you to get involve with your kids education and be aware of the bs the school districts put on your kids, our future generations. We have to stand up and push back. The trend is going against us and will be worst if we don't push back.
@@mrbondohrama That is one easy thing to fix! I for one will check to see if Sowell's books are available in my local library, and if not I shall request them to be made available.
So true! We were given the same set of black heroes to research every year when I was growing up.... and conservative black geniuses were never included!
I am a Conservative librarian. It is a difficult job. But, I find there are many Conservative patrons who need me to be here. I wish we could get these types of Children's books on our shelves. Thank you for doing what you do.
This is why parallel economies are great. When anyone, whether it is publishing or content creators like Disney/Marvel are met with QUALITY competition that isn't woke they will eventually lose. The key is quality alternatives.
Edit: comment was changed to Disney/marvel after the fact, so meaningless now I guess, Content creators like Disney and marvel? Those are the same thing.... Disney's probably half the film market right now
That works in a truly free market, at least, but I'm not sure we live in a truly free market anymore. The corrupt federal government has put its fingers on the scale.
I’m over 40 and I just heard of him a few months ago from watching TH-cam videos! I wish I had learned about him in school! I want to read that book about him, even at this age!
@@macethorns1168 It looks like you’re comment isn’t showing, but yes, Sowell’s story destroys the narrative that we (black people) are oppressed and perpetual victims, who need assistance to succeed in life.
@@Maki-00 Thomas has a channel you can follow. He hasn't been active on it for a couple years now but he has people manage it for him as far as I know. I've been following his work for about 6 years now. Very smart man. Here's an interesting fact. In his 20's he joined the communist party in America and was a marxist. Thankfully he quickly left that behind after he saw how evil and destructive it was. Not just for black folk, but for all people. Ever since his awakening he has spoken out against it and the Democrat machine. Its refreshing to see a man like him who realized the game and started to dismantle it. The path he walked is a guidebook and a template for other folk like him to avoid falling into the same trap. Reasons why marxists highly dislike him. He's a wrecking ball to the whole democrat narrative.
When I read the phrase "conservative science fiction writer", I envisioned aliens who come to earth and extoll the importance of free speech and the right to keep and bear ray guns. 😂
Science Fiction is why I hold conservative values. Heinlein, Steakly, David Brin, John C Wright, Huxley, Howard, Ringo, Flint, Bradbury... and for fantasy who can forget Terry Goodkind? Almost all the best classics are from conservative writers. I still laugh that Orwell was leftist but wrote one of the best conservative books ever made!
"I remember when the librarian was an older woman. We didn't know about her personal life, we didn't want to know about her personal life. She didn't have a personal life."
What's unsettling about a lot of these political books is how much they heavily sugarcoat the stories and make them look overly friendly, good and innocent. It's creepy, like the utopian intro to a movie setting that's too perfect, and reveals it's actually a dystopian horror nightmare. What are these people doing to kids who then will be shocked when they discover the atrocities governments commit? The violence? This is scary. We already have a youth independence crisis with millions of people unable to cope with the real world. And people who aren't exposed to policing in the US and don't realize how authoritarian and aggressive it is, until it is too late. When will adults learn how devastating childhood sheltering is? When it's too late?
Some of the books aimed at children and purchased by schools and school libraries heavily manipulate the facts and even outright lie to kids. Of particular note are some of the current crop of gender ideology books being purchased by schools. Even the better books sugar coat facts or sometimes present opinions as facts. Schools seem to be all about "social justice" nowadays, and less about teaching kids how to assess information, look at various perspectives and firm their own opinion. Opinions are too often provided to students pre-formed. I have even seen a teacher insist that her students' career exploration projects embed a social justice element. So, as a partial antidote, here is one children's picture book you can use to counter the dogma and help kids learn to think critically: Facts vs Opinions vs Robots, by Michael Rex.
They should but obviously that's no longer the case. If they only hear one side they'll never know if it was wrong or right. They'll just believe that's the way it is.
It really bugs me that they are always pushing Ginsberg. I see a lot of younger people thinking she was the first woman Supreme Court Justice. Sandra Day O'Conner was the first and was appointed by Reagan. I didn't always agree with her rulings but she was a thousand times better than Ginsberg and SHE WAS THE FIRST!
Hello, a Barnes & Noble Bookseller here. I would like to thank you for making this video, as I have often noticed this myself! I'm glad to see this topic discussed.
@@donaldstinnett5630 Well I can't really do anything I'm just a Bookseller. I can order in what books that I can for the store to keep a balance, but unfortunately my store is more left wing than right, so even if I were to suggest a display, it would likely not go anywhere. Again, that's if we even carry said right wing books.
@razorback10 This is why people apply for managerial positions. Not only better pay, but you get to call the shots and fix problems like these. Same goes for librarians. If real people don't do the work the whole running of things gets left to default to failures who never learned anything productive and must take crummy jobs as cheap hirelings.
To make a change, start requesting the books at the local public libraries. If you make the requests they often get shipped from libraries that carry them. They in turn will order more copies to meet demand. You can also ask the libraries why they are not carrying a book series you want or even a book about a person you want to read about. Libraries want support and you don't get supported if you don't carry things people want.
"Libraries want support[,] and you don't get supported if you don't carry things [which] people want." Unless you are a "public" (government) library, then local Republicans will insist on continuing to keep taxpayer funding for these libraries because Republicans tell each other, "We always have!", and will never consider PRIVATIZING the local municipal or county library. Up until about the 1850s, in the U.S. and in Britain, local lending libraries were PRIVATE subscription or other philanthropic enterprises. (Merchant and "mechanics'" libraries were commercial enterprises. There were also "lyceums", "athenaeums", "literary & philosophical societies" [also known as "lit & phils"], "mechanics' institutes", etc..) This was also the same time that most American states created their "public school" systems, and took control of American children's education away from their parents. We need a separation of general education (and art and culture) from state for the same moral and practical reasons we have a separation of church and state. Government is an instrument of FORCE, it is not an appropriate arbiter of IDEAS (particularly regarding the True, the Good, and the Beautiful).
This. If no one is asking for certain books no one is ordering them. But MAINLY if no one is checking the books out that are ordered you have wasted valuable collection development money. If you order ten type a books and ten type b books and check out usage statistics and type a books were checked out 3 times per book and type b were checked out 50 times per book you are going to order mainly type b books the next year. It’s simply good business. A good library has both sides of every issue and if they don’t they’ll happily order whatever you’d like. But if no one is coming in to check out type b books and they sit on the shelf taking up space they’re going to get weeded out and sold at the book sale to make room for stuff that people are coming in for.
You have to KNOW the book is available... in order to "order" it. And, you will not KNOW it is available... unless you SEE it. I have asked about numerous books at the local library. They are NEVER available. When asked why... all I get is a shrug of the shoulders. The ACTUAL answer is, it is a book from a conservative author. They KNOW it, and will NEVER buy it.
wow! I don't write children's books, I write novels and I was rejected for it because my book doesn't fit the narrative in today's woke society. I was told that my book didn't have enough female characters and it wasn't inclusive enough with race. I didn't think that the same would happen to writers who write children's books. Maybe it's time to create a publishing company of our own that allows both not just one group. Comic Books are already woke and sales are not doing so well, there are people I know that are creating their own and are doing very well.
I was looking for a new book a while back and one in particular was showing up on many lists (I don't recall the name). I looked it up and it was getting rave reviews. Then I started noticing all the "diversity" mentions. Turns out this book does not have a single male character, but was praised for its insight on the future and its diversity.
@@zuko9085 my book was rejected because it lacked the amount female characters they wanted and different race. The main character in my story is male and talks about how empty society is with technology, my character travels to Norway and learns about the world again outside from technology, it talks about culture, nature, food, music, people, and even the importance of fatherhood.
"In girls' children's literature there's absolutely zero messaging about motherhood." This. I wanted so badly to be a mother, but was always told it was the inferior choice. At one point in college I was thinking out loud and said, "Sometimes I think about giving up medicine entirely to get married and have kids." The response surprised me. Friends were openly repulsed. A man I looked up to said, "That would be such a waste!" I'm happily married now. Got to birth four beautiful children. Did foster care for several years. Got to adopt three beautiful children. I've never had a career other than homemaker, foster mother, and homeschool teacher. Wouldn't have it any other way.
Despite all their highfalutin talk, the left really hates humanity . That's why our current leftist society actively discourages women from having children.
Many young women are pursuing demanding careers (like medicine). Likely, few realize that their best years for childbearing will be devoted to education and starting their careers. Those who delay marriage and childbearing to pursue other things may find themselves unmarried and/or childless in their 30s and beyond and experience great grief as a result. They were not mindful that that could be a consequence of their earlier choices. Young women need to be told that their ability to bear children is a precious gift that should not be taken for granted. If delayed, they may experience temporal or permanent infertility.
Two experiences in public school stand out in my mind when I think about this. In fifth grade, we wrote about what we wanted to do as adults. After a long list of potential jobs/careers, I wrote something like "if I can't do that, I'll just be a mom." My teacher made a point to emphasize that motherhood isn't less than in any way. I already knew that, and just hadn't phrased my writing well; I always planned to be a mother no matter what. Thinking back, I'm glad she spoke up about it in front of others, because while I didn't need that message, maybe someone else did. In ninth grade, my English teacher was trying to make some point (can't remember what), and said something like, "Raise your hand if you just want to be a housewife.". I proudly raised my hand, surprising the teacher, but her point still stood because I was the *only* one raising my hand. It's pretty disappointing that as a general society, we put so little emphasis on (or actively discourage/attack/disparage) the most important aspects of human life: family relationships.
I mocked homeschool kids as a kid, and swore I'd never homeschool mine. Now that I'm mid-life, i'd never send my kids to a public school, and greatly value my responsibility of training and educating my own kids.
Nah you guys are making a big mistake. Your kids should socialize, once covid hit I literarily sat with no friend and had a poor learning environment. Edit: Listen I get it, I don't want to hear your crap anymore. From my personal experience, homeschool sucks compared to real life. Like 10 of you keep saying the same thing. This is why people delete their comments.
@@42luke93 funny enough, my homeschooled kids actually socialized more during COVID than they did beforehand. Cuz more families started homeschooling and we had more kids to play with at the park during "school hours". Before that, our homeschool community was relatively small. Most of the neighborhood kids were in school all day and had homework after school so they didn't ever come outside to play, or if they did it wasn't until super late in the day. But my kids are done with school by noon most days, sometimes even earlier, and would run outside and play all afternoon. My two youngest are ok playing with each other for the most part, but my oldest is a social butterfly who loves having friends and the park was always empty until 4 or 5 in the afternoon which is close to dinner time. Now our homeschool group gets together at the park weekly at 1 and we even have a monthly nerf war. Because we all finish so early, that leaves plenty of time for playing with friends. :)
I find it particularly interesting that she highlights how motherhood is not taught much to young girls in a positive light anymore. I am young woman who works and I enjoy it for now, but if I get married in the future, I would absolutely prefer full time stay at home mothering than to be punching for higher career goals. It's great that women have a choice to work, which was not always possible, but truly only for about half a century has it been EXPECTED instead of or on top of motherhood.
A poll found that 51% of women want to be stay at home mothers and wives. That's not what was expected. The lockdowns showed women how nice that is despite the messaging being shoved down our throat. I've regularly come under attack online because I chose to be a SHM. I've been told I offer nothing to society, that I'm worthless. etc.
I'm in my 40s, and even when I was a girl, it felt like girls were constantly being told, "You can be ANYTHING!!!" But if you said, "I want to be a mom," you would get laughed at, and derisively asked, "Is that all?" It was as if the message was actually, "You can be anything EXCEPT a mom."
That is great! It would be important to find a spouse that would value you as a wife and mother in the home and to prepare to live on one income with accordant lifestyle expectations. Bear in mind that debt from college loans often hampers a woman's ability to be at home with her children; paying such off early would really help. I was blessed to be a SAHM, but we lived frugally--my husband took the bus to help keep expenses down, for example. I would do it all over again if I could. Children need their mother's presence, nurture, and care. Good for you for thinking ahead! Encourage those around you to do the same!
No, women has always been EXPECTED to work. Who do you think were the maids, the governess, the nanny, the seamstress, the cook, the laundry washer, the scullery maids etc etc etc? Rich women were forbidden to work, even going to the kitchen will taint them, but all other women are expected to work. Even children were expected to work, so why do you ever think women were never expected to work? If you don't work for a noble, your life is even more miserable. Back then, women were expected to walk miles to draw water, to cut firewoods, to tend to fire, to cook, to clean, feed the animals and milk the cows etc etc etc. A lot of them don't go out for paying work because work at home was too much already. Also, do you think they actually take care of the kids? Maybe for the first born, but for subsequent children the eldest child would take care of the younger siblings. Most of American's problem is they forgot the whole world was in a rubble and they profit off the War that's why some white women could afford to sit back and relax. The rest of the world, women continue to work because the men were dead in the war. But somehow nowadays they think it's the norm for women to not work. Like, no. You are not as rich as a country you were previously, so of course you need to work. Just like the rest of the world.
@@tynj4173 I hear your grief! Little girls are propagandized from early their elementary years onward that their goal in life should be college and career. A woman devoted to marriage, motherhood, and homemaking is on a completely different 'life track.' Our culture does everything that it can to remove that model from people's minds. There are young women out there that want to be a wife and mother, but often they are afraid to speak up as it is going against the grain of society. You might even help a young woman to 'deconstruct' the lies of feminism as you talk about the consequences of women's choices and their impact on family life later on. You are still young! Don't settle! Talk about these things with others boldly. Help to wake people up! As a young man of 17, you are more mature than most people your age. Marriage and family are great blessings, especially when moms and dads are fulfilling their traditional roles as God intended. Children certainly benefit--what child would ask to grow up in a 'center?' Children naturally want and need their mothers--not hired caregivers! Feminism is no friend to marriage, family, and children.
John Stossel, the hero the entire world needs, but doesn't know it. I remember growing up at my grandparents hearing the TV playing in the living room, while I played with Legos, overhearing your interesting segments since I was 6 years old. I'm 34 now. Mr Stossel is nothing shirt of a national (if not galactic) treasure. The pursuit of truth is the most noble and he's been spearheading the effort for decades. Long live John Stossel.
Great, More parents MUST take a more active role in their child's education. Govt. education is destroying American children's minds when they are most vulnerable. If you cannot home school, you must give your kids the proper reading material.
What I as a European find most fascinating is that you have biographies of Supreme Court justices and politicians aimed at children. The whole concept is totally alien to me, what kid wants to read about a supreme court justice?
Partially for knowledge purposes but usually what I saw was books about significant political people were for use in school projects. Usually a biography assignment or something.
Ive been a huge fan of THOMAS SOWELL since I started reading his columns in a local paper during college. Despite his age his mind is still sharp as a tack. He has slowed down a bit naturally - but his mind is still top notch.
Eh, all of (neo)classical liberalism is pretty mids. Maybe look up behavioral economics and see how economics actually works in the real world. If you think you can boil supply and demand down to human rationality, then you're not accounting for the irrational tendencies humans have.
@@giantsr1eva libertarians won’t stop degenerates from trying to shoving gender ideology down children’s throats, nor will they fight against the normalization of ped op helia by activist groups. F Israel slave trump too.
@@giantsr1eva Given that libertarians NOT voting for Trump would almost certainly have resulted in a Clinton win, Sowell's advice was sound. I know many people dislike "lesser of two evils" decision-making, but it's often the only way to avoid the greater of two evils.
@@stevenscott2136 Are you saying that we should abandon our values so that one party can win? What is libertarian about the republican or democrat party? We just had a republican president who added 7.8 trillion dollars to the national debt. How can Thomas Sowell vote for that?
I kind of am by shopping elsewhere. No drama, and it's sort of the old school way of taking care of business; being choosy about where I do my business. But I appreciate the sentiment! In some contexts, absolutely. Stand up and engaging the system to make the changes one feels is necessary. Buying books or coffee isn't it for me.
As said on video, nor parents nor kids are getting these books anyway Its just political mingling For all that matters they could just have them locked in a container storage, the fun is with government handing libraries "investments " then the libraries "donate" it back As long there's public funding profit isn't mandatory
My BF was a children's librarian, and while she was personally liberal, she didn't like the wokism and always looked for good quality, not woke topics. And when the woke mob would come for books, like Dr Seuss, she refused to remove them, even when parents would yell at her. Unfortunately, she relocated and left the job, but I hope whomever replaced her had those same beliefs.
When I saw only liberal themed books at my library's new acquisitions shelf, I complained to the nearest librarian I saw. I suggest all library patrons do the same.
I am a librarian and I have noticed a lot of children's books and young adult books champion liberal ideas. Usually if I want to order more conservative books I cannot go through my usual booksellers. Say what you will about Amazon, but they pretty much sell everything, liberal and conservative books. I will say the Who Was? series that they showed in this video does have a biography on Winston Churchill and on Jesus. Even though I am a conservative librarian I will say the majority of my peers do lean liberal even in a red state like mine. Teachers also tend to lean liberal (of course not always). Teachers and librarians buy a lot of books in this country.
Dang, you're a librarian??? It must just be the liberal ones that look old and crusty even when they are in their 20's lol. You're hot for a librarian.
I train law enforcement officers and as strange as this sounds, I warn officers to expect pushback from librarians when conducting an investigation. They act as if they shouldn’t cooperate with law enforcement. The truth of the matter is criminals use the library and the libraries are funded with tax dollars.
An evil man, along with Stalin. I as an ethnic Ukrainian (1st gen American), nearly had a conniption when I saw a book about Stalin in the children's section of my local library a few years ago.
Mr Stossel, So glad TH-cam promoted one of your videos. Hearing your voice reminded me of when I watched news and information shows on broadcast TV. I always thought you were credible and informative. My how things have changed. Now if by chance I catch the news on TV, I am very skeptical about whether or not I’m hearing the truth.
Former librarian here. I took early retirement because I'm a conservative who didn't fit in to the super liberal library system. Things to consider: 1)Libraries are funded and run by governments. Mine was funded and overseen by the county government in a super liberal north Florida county. Decisions are not made by librarians or educators, but by county commissioners and citizen committees. A small handful of county employees made decisions on what materials we got. And as a "cost saving measure," we just outsourced that decision to a third party company. Someone in New York now makes the choice as to what materials the county libraries in Florida get. 2) A few years ago, the Aspen center came out with a report on the future of libraries. (Who is the Aspen center? Are they a group of educators or librarians? Nope. I had to hunt for it, but they are a social justice group out of California. Seems they have a report and suggestion for every industry.) What they said is that the future of libraries is not books or physical materials. Libraries need to stop being book warehouses for privileged old people and everything needs to go online. How do you scare librarians into giving up their books? Show them (carefully cultivated) statistics that say no one uses libraries anymore and if they don't adapt, they'll be out of a job. (All the while moving all content online where it can be adapted to suit your narrative.) When I left, our library was purging books by the thousands to replace them with meeting rooms, online content, and programs, like LGBTQ+ bookclubs. We were told we needed to take anti-racist training and a weeks long training on helping homeless people. I don't want to be a social worker, I wanted to cultivate a love of reading and stories in kids. I was told reading wasn't supposed to be fun, it was for learning. So, I quit. As a sidenote, I was the only Republican in a library of 8 people. (Well, actually, there was another one, but he was afraid to tell anyone for fear of retaliation.) The whole time I worked there, the other people kept telling me that I wasn't a conservative, I just thought I was because I was raised conservative. I couldn't be, because I was kind, non judgmental, I talked to the employees of colour, I didn't hate gay people, and I was just so nice. I kept telling them that they had bought into the stereotype, but they refused to believe me. I can confirm that 99% of the books we purchased were completely liberal. (The YA new books were all about diversity and LGBTQ and how terrible this county is.) Even the picture books coming in were about social justice and racism and LGBTQ themes. I got to where I hated looking at our book collection. I grew up loving reading, the worlds in my head, the adventures. We've taken that away from kids. Now if your book isn't teaching an approved social value, we won't carry it. No wonder children don't enjoy reading anymore.
The truth is that Americans have been reading liberal books LONG before this era, as almost all American classics are spiritually leftist. How did it take you this long to realize?
Thank you for the insight! I have noticed this at libraries and it sickens me. I no longer peruse the newly published books in the children's section. I stick with the old classics that are being banned these days.
@@henlofren7321 - There is liberal and there is leftist. I respect the heck out of classical liberals who just want to make life better for people. We agree to disagree about how to do that, but we do it civilly. Those "leftist" classics are teaching solid values, just maybe not the ones or in a way the religious right agreed with. A modern leftist teaches victimhood and systemic racism and the 1619 project. It's Marxism in a new costume. Don't confuse Mark Twain with AOC.
John, I appreciate you covering this. It is something I’ve noticed myself in bookstores and libraries. I consider myself more libertarian than a conservative, but my ideologies align more closely with the right than the left. The woke left, and their objectives like big government, restrictive laws, social mandates, and more control over personal freedom and opportunities should concern all libertarians! The left wants to control all aspects of your life from the cradle to the grave. This should frighten any freedom-loving libertarian to their very core!
Except, as said, 90 per-cent of librarians donate to leftists, vote leftist, and BUY leftist. And, that control and $$$ is also in the media. And, that control and $$$ is also in the majority of government agencies.
I was born in the 70’s I think we were less racist in high school than today. We saw race but it didn’t dictate our behavior. If we liked you we liked you. Kids today trying to shock will say the n word. I swear we never said it, it was rude and low class.
I own and operate a lending library of exclusively English books in China. The number of English books I will not allow on my shelves is astounding. I refuse to expose children to alphabet clan talking points and themes and anything that touches on any form of racism. Sad, but it seems you have to write a 'politically aware' story to be nominated for a number of awards these days so I can no longer blindly purchase Caldecott or Newbery medal winning/nominated books. I'm also getting tired of the 'girl power' and 'we need to save the planet' stories. They're way overdone and many are simply unhinged. Children do NOT need to be exposed to any of this.
A Wrinkle in Time, the book, was real girl power to me growing up. So was Little Women, Secret Garden, A Little Princess...a lot of mythology and folklore, biographies of real women.
@@LavenderBlue-g1j Loved Little Women. Each girl had a different ambition so all were represented. It also taught that what you think you want might not really be what's best for you later.
I agree. Some of these books are graphic too. This is happening because of DEI (I prefer DIE as more accurate). It's why the Oscar's have now put those as more important in a movie getting an award than if it's good art or impacts how films are made. That's been the case in literature for awhile and why a completely fake story like 1619 got a Pulitzer.
As someone from outside the Western world, I grew up consuming western media without seeing much of race. Only when I started studying abroad in the west did I start seeing such hyperawareness of race, so I thought it's pretty weird.
Ben's just the other side of the spectrum, I agree with him when he is dismantling leftist arguments but I don't agree with his solutions either. Ben actually uses the same tactics, he will agree we need to cut foreign funding and focus on America but if you mention cutting funding to the country we fund the most you are an anti-Semite.
I have a super easy suggestion for any normal person who just wants to encourage reading in young kids. It's called buy them second hand and then check to make sure. If you get them before probably 1995 it should be fine. Anything between 1995 and probably 2005 needs to be carefully scrutinized. Anything later than that should be avoided until they're older and you've had conversations. And for the record, I'm black. I grew up on military installations and we literally didn't realize there were different races. There was no expectation that everybody be the same. All our parents wore the same uniform. That's what mattered to us. So the "refusing to acknowledge race being bad" is something somebody made up. All that mattered was whether or not you played fair.
The most alarming thing to me is how librarians are basically functioning as political curators, preventing certain messages from finding a home. It's completely antithetical to the spirit of a library.
@@ireadclassiccomics3172 Do you actually know of any laws like that? I think it might be a good idea to have them but I'm doubtful that there actually are any.
@@vrclckd-zz3pv we do have laws like that in Norway. There's an issue in what is actually produced though, as the whole system favors new books, not old.
That insidious quote is like saying, "If you deny being racist, you deny reality." Yeah we all detect different shades of skin -- so what -- we're all part of the human race, we're not morons.
Pointing out that the red-head in the corner is who you're looking for is not denying color. But aside from the merely descriptive, it shouldn't matter.
I think the most important thing about children’s stories is that they should be engaging for the children. Children’s story shouldn’t be about adults’ political values. It’s just not fun.
yah, i was thinking that, too. but i dunno... like it or not, kids are being indoctrinated through every possible outlet, so maybe you do have to actively counter that programming somehow. and to be fair, the Thomas Sowell book didn't sound half bad and not overtly political.
@@roseypeach8363 Personal choices for literature depend on age and maturity. When I think of "kids books", I'm thinking ages 1-5, and that's what this age range seems to be, though I don't recall Stossel mentioning it. He also avoids talking about the worst propaganda kids are subjected to, and have been for thousands of years - religious nonsense. Have we become too acclimated to those lies? Between ages 5 and 10, the only things I recall reading were hated school assignments for dummies. Around age 11, I discovered others; Stephen King, Clive Barker, metal magazines like Hit Parader, Metal Edge, Kerrang!, and of course, girlie mags like penthouse. School literature got much better in middle school. I remember reading Fahrenheit 451.
Yeah I won't lie, that part with the little kids spouting about conservative values grosses me out. It's like seeing kids holding a sign at a rally. I think that's just wrong. Of course the kids will be indoctrinated to appoint in the home, but how about they become adults with their own opinions before they go to a rally. I don't give a shit what the rally is about, don't have your kids actively participate as if it's their own opinion.
These books don’t even have to be political. Where are the biographies of Lise Meitner, Dr. Frances Kelsey, Dr. Charles Drew? It isn’t /just/ the exclusion of conservative biographies, it is the extreme push of solely progressive personas.
He's written dozens of books and each of them I've read has been great. He does the deep research and backs everything up with empirical facts and references ... things that are commonly missing from woke books.
@@DianeMerriam Exactly. The left just tries to appeal to people’s emotions and hope they don’t ask for details, let alone proof. They also try to paint us as racists, yet here we are, geeking out over one of the greatest intellectual minds out there…who just happens to be black.
I work at a Barnes and Noble in South Florida and I think I can provide a decent amount of insight into this world. For my store which sells the most in South Florida, our customer base is more conservative and we are in the center of the city. Many people from different countries, not only Americans, are looking for books that challenge beliefs and help bolster the mind. I personally have been able to reinvigorate sales of philosophers from Marcus Aurelius to Hobbes to Marx to Ayn Rand. Letting people choose and explore ideas is true freedom. This is why I dislike the children’s area because it is only woke type books. There are no books about any conservative types, even the most popular being Reagan or Churchill. The indoctrination is heavy on that and publishers are more to blame I think.
Publishers have their own employees stage demonstrations when they publish Jordan Peterson FFS. "Clean your room" "Take on a burden and conquer it so you will be a benefit to your family and society". What a Nazi!
Bruh, you stock shelves. Ain’t no one going up to a Barnes and Nobel employee for book recs. Not that any of the individuals you mentioned are lacking in book sales or recognition.
@@melinaharker9177 Not true. That is one of the many tasks we are given now. We are expected to be jacks of all trade in the operations and knowledge of section and functions. There have been many times I have been asked to recommend books and I always go for classic literature.
Mr. Stossel keep up the great work. .You present common sense values with the freedom to agree or disagree. Isn't that the purpose of our Constitution? Please continue doing what you are doing.
I see a lot of people here saying kids don't need to be reading biographies or other non fiction... but that is part of an education! Kids are required in several grades to report on a biography and they should have lots of choices so they can learn about lots of different people and philosophies!
I agree, but they should be biographies of important people. I am British, and the idea of having a large market of biographies aimed at children, made up of such nonentities as 'RBG' or 'ACB' astounds me. When I was a child I read biographies - of Robert Stephenson, James Watt, King Alfred and Oliver Cromwell - not of ephemeral political appointees! If you want a Justice to teach your children about, I suggest Judge Jeffreys...
Let’s not forget Dr. Ben Carson, world renowned pediatric neurosurgeon, philanthropist and head of HUD. He grew up in poverty and became a self-made man.
That is one of the things the late great Rush Limbaugh was doing with his books as well. They were so popular the NY Times had to redo their rankings to stop him from being on top.
And yet Sowell's classical liberalism doesn't account for human irrationality. Behavioral Economics is more informative about why people make the decisions they do.
I will absolutely be buying some of these books very soon, as I have two boys ages 6 and 2.5. The Thomas Sowell one is the biggest draw. Of course I'm also waiting on my copy of Johnny the Walrus, which is supposed to arrive by the end of the month. SBG for life.
Non-left-leaning small town librarian here. Please, please, please use your library. Please develop a positive relationship with your librarians. Politely request materials through interlibrary loan. Check out or request classic books. Actually using your library and getting to know your librarians will do more than attending library board meetings and angrily demanding books be removed from the shelves. Demanding the removal of materials only reinforces the negative stereotypes librarians have about people who disagree with them. Using your library and requesting the types of materials you would like to see there will have a greater positive impact on the people making the choices about what your library purchases. Being a good library patron is the way to influence your librarians. It is absolutely true that librarians are coming out of library school thoroughly steeped in critical theory. Sadly, most libraries are no longer the neutral spaces they are supposed to be. Using your library, especially interlibrary loan, can change that.
So glad you covered this. I have noticed also that LGBT books get front and center in the libraries. Plenty of new kids books seem to have something LGBTQIA+ inside, even if the book is about collecting rocks or something else just fun. Does a woke issue have to be in every kid book? It is too stressful. Kids literature has certainly changed. Also, it can sometimes be hard to find classic children's books that have been read for decades. I even had trouble finding some C.S. Lewis. We've already seen the assault on Dr. Seuss and Laura Ingalls Wilder. I think libraries should be expansive in literature choices. And some of the newer books that talk about people from the past, for instance Columbus, would downplay any significance he had in history and would make him out to be more villainous than heroic. To be fair, some older books may have tried to make everybody seem saintly, but the newer ones seem to be more vicious and only focus on the faults and sins of past heroes. We can see that in the way that Washington and Jefferson are now presented in our culture. For whatever their faults, we have a great nation because of men like them. Parents certainly have to be aware of what kids books really say.
Front and center all the time , I noticed this in Canada 5 yrs ago. I used to hide them behind the other books so it wouldn't be on display. Is that bad?
You are a rebel, much like myself when I was younger. I can't condemn you without condemning myself. Once I was angry at the world for being so wicked. Now I just try to make it better.
Never forget these people hate their existance and wish they were never born. Tell them that you appreciate life and will continue to fruitfully multiply. Also collect these old stories and read them to your kids. Dont wait till their gone.
Kesha, Thank you for your right-on comments. Has your family watched 'Little House on the Prairie' (Free) on Xfinity - Peacock, Pluto, etc.? So well written and uplifting! Michael Landon's talent is desperately needed on today's TV family viewing. What can kids see today besides Sponge Bob and the Woke gay/transgender characters? How welcoming it is to see 'Little House' with its family and spiritual values! More of this type of show could keep our kids off the streets and away from gun violence.
Barns and nobles removed the Christian kids books from the kids section and put them with the adult Christian books across the store. Books a milligram has them in the adults too but it’s kept near the kids section.
Ya know how when grandma says the N word, or when you find blatantly racist stuff from back in the day with some guy all dressed up in black face smiling like there’s nothing wrong with that and everyone just feels kinda awkward cause we know it’s not cool or ok..... in the future our kids kids are going to find stuff from our age, like kids books that are blatantly talking to kids about far too mature content and they are going to have that same feeling of “this is wrong” and that’s a good thing. Im glad we’re turning the page little bit by little bit and I hope soon we can let the kids just get back to being kids with genuinely educational content, they deserve to explore the world they will create not perpetuate the mistakes that were made before they were even born.
There are awesome books out there that will hold children's interest; parents just need to guide their children to them! I highly recommend Boys of Grit Who Changed the World and Boys of Grit Who Became Men of Honour by Archer Wallace. Also, I highly recommend the series by Janet and Geoff Benge titled Christian Heroes Then & Now. Exciting, true stories in the series include biographies about Olympic track champion Eric Liddell, jungle pilot Nate Saint, and scoundrel-turned-changed man George Muller. Muller's changed life and subsequent ministry to others impacted thousands of lives; a life-changing read is his life's story! Even better, parents can read these stories aloud to their children and share the adventures!
Saw John Stossel on 20/20 (thanks to my parents) back in the day as a kid. It's awesome to see that he's still a voice of commonsense and reason. Great stuff!
Great idea! I work at a school library and we love donations! (Although you'd probably have to talk to the librarian... like she said in the video, many are left leaning and may not "accept" these books)
Children's books now are absolute garbage! Pure twaddle (for my fellow homeschool peeps) lol. As a homeschooling family the library has always been our favorite place but over the years the level of SJW or just pure dumbed down literature that is available far outnumbers anything of quality.
I just started buying used books online, yard sales, used book sales, and ebay. I found that half the time the book I wanted wasn’t available at my library (and it’s a giant county system with about 10+ libraries). I didn’t like my kids going into the library to choose whatever they wanted because, well propaganda. It’s our science and our history curriculum. I usually buy it if I hear it’s banned for racism. Once in a while they actually are but usually it’s just anti SJW.
Is it just me or is ANY biographical book on a political or social giant out of place in a KID’s library? Imagine a kid picking a Kamala Harris book over a Dr Seuss😆
Well, kids are usually required to report on biographies at school. I work at a school library and we try to keep a wide range of them; some of them are really fun and well written! But you're right, they don't get picked up much until assigned. But you'd be surprised at how much non- fiction gets checked out overall.
I can't help but laugh at people who think its a great idea to "offer alternatives" when were talking about blatant political propaganda in CHILDREN'S BOOKS. It's proposed as if toddlers are going to peruse the selection and purchase the books themselves -when we all know it's actually going to be their shitty parents who want to groom them for their respective Party at an early age. If you're truly an independent voter, then this stuff should make you sick to your stomach no matter who's doing it. Just let kids be kids for Christ's sake...
The other day my cousin was reading to our little cousin (age 2). She had read all the typical kids book so she asked him to get her another book to read...and he came back with one of daddy's books (who is a HS civics teacher) - "The 1619 Project!" Funny but really scary at the same time.
I hate that book. Normally I'll tell everyone about how the Loyalists were unfairly maligned by history because they lost, but the 1619 Project is a pack of venomous exaggeration that paints all of the Revolutionaries in the same light as the worst of them. Notice how it is not published in the United Kingdom.
Today, self publishing IS what most people do: just look at YT and Tik Tok. I self published a book, because the niche market would pay 19th century prices to the authors, knowing the authors are a specific minority that wouldn't fight back. Self publishing isn't difficult, but it is a whole lot of work. Where a publishing house has dozens of individuals who handle each aspect of a book's production, the self publisher must do them all; oh, and find the capital to pay for it. The ONLY problem I had was in promoting and selling my book. If you don't have a major publisher behind you, none of the major book sellers would buy them. since I didn't havea a million dollar marketing and advertising budget, again, the book stores wouldn't buy my book. I had on a handful of multibook sales. I don't say these things to discourage you, but to prepare you. This is a lot of work; more than most folks day jobs. If you don't have the support of a loving family, you might want to consider a different option. Such as, contacting these smaller companies with your finished work, so that half of the work is already completed, and negotiate with them. My apologies, I cannot discuss my book any farther. This is my incognito account that hides me from some very vicious online stalkers.
@Objective Observer Self publishing isn't really a thing for most people. As you say, without the marketing muscle of even an independent publisher, self publishing is little more than vanity press.
@@anonygent The two companies discussed in this video. My apologies for not being succinct. Try submitting your work to The Daily Wire, or ask them who publishes their books.
@@derekspitz9225 I disagree. MOST people are chosing to Self Publish on YT and TikTok, because they would never survive Hollywood. There are numerous Individuals who EARN THEIR LVING off their YT Channels. They work harder on their channels than they did their real jobs, but they love the work and it's flexible. Yes, you use a 'Vainty Press' who will have the contacts to secure a quality printing of your book, but at a much lower price. Some of them will file your copyrights, and send a copy to the Library of Congress. Yes, Lazy People will never succeed self publishing. In some niches, self publishing is far more profitable than trying to keep up with dozens of contracts from niche publishers who demand you don't get paid until they publish, then hold a contract for up to 5 years, without publishing the work, and can simply dump the work back in your lap at the end of the contract. Meanwhile, the trend your work was capitalizing on, has passed. These niche publishers do not pay enough for you to secure a manager to handle all those contracts, but they buy infinitely more Niche Content than the Big Name mainstream publishers. In a Niche Market, the consumer is paying millions every year on their interest and the Content Creators are living below the poverty line... unless they can create quickly and endlessly, and still keep up with their endless number of 'sold' but not paid, contracts, which will far outnumber their paid contracts. Or, they have a day job, and/or a separate income. The Publishing Industry, in general, is a dog eat dog world, and Lazy people don't succeed in that, either.
@@Objective-Observer "Lazy people"? Wow. You think if a person isn't successful at self publishing they're lazy? What have you ever 'published'? smh ... and chucking stuff up on social media is *not* publishing. That's not even vanity press.
Here's a wonderful parallel for you conservatives to ponder: the story on Sowell is about a black man rising up and standing out against oppression (teachers didn't believe in his abilities). You conservative authors are claiming to be similarly oppressed (publishers won't publish us, libraries won't carry our books) but guess what: just like Sowell you can rise up, self publish, be a "self made person" and stop bitching about your predicament. If your story is truly great, people will buy your book. You preach the free market, let it decide if you're successful or not. You've identified the problem, now take your own damn medicine and be self made conservative publishers, but if nobody wants to read your books don't bitch that you're being oppressed, you made these rules, live by them.
Thanks for giving this young woman an opportunity to share about her books and for highlighting the others. It's good for parents to know there are choices out there!
There are worthwhile reads! Parents need to first learn about them and then introduce them to their children. Some "hidden gems" that are not likely to be on the shelf of your local public library that I highly recommend:
Created for Work: Practical Insights for Young Men by Bob Schultz. Excellent to read aloud to your 8-12 year old boys, but, in truth, the entire family would enjoy and benefit from this book! Others by the same author include Practical Wisdom for Becoming a Man and Practical Happiness: A Young Man's Guide to a Contented Life.
Boys of Grit Who Changed the World and Boys of Grit Who Became Men of Honour by Archer Wallace. Biographical sketches of real people who overcame difficult circumstances to do great things.
Christian Heroes Then & Now series by Janet and Geoff Benge. Eric Liddell, Nate Saint, George Muller, Corrie ten Boom, Gladys Aylward, and Amy Carmichael are people to which you must introduce your children. This series is a good place to start!
You mean so they can be propagandized in a different direction? Lololol, too funny 🤣😂
@@WanderingExistence as the woman in video said, "read the books." As a parent, look at these books she published before your kids do. Better yet, check out all books they are exposed to now.
A Thomas Sowell book would have been amazing to read as a child, especially to then hear him speak about economics in plain english when you're old enough to understand the basics
And should be widely available in the library!
We won't have a country, our great Republic, if we let the leftists indoctrinate our kids/generation in 40 years. It is happening in the Republic of Vietnam. The commies invaded my country and indoctrinated the people along with ruled w/ an iron fist for more than 40 years. Now the current generation of kids are just 'red cows' blindly obey their jungle laws; to the point that they had no effin clues that they are being oppressed. They all had 1 phrase that the commies love to hear "who cares about politics" That is a very sad and painful thing to see/hear from kids to adults in any cultures. Parents, I beg you to get involve with your kids education and be aware of the bs the school districts put on your kids, our future generations. We have to stand up and push back. The trend is going against us and will be worst if we don't push back.
@@mrbondohrama That is one easy thing to fix! I for one will check to see if Sowell's books are available in my local library, and if not I shall request them to be made available.
I’m an adult with no children, but I want to read the book!
So true! We were given the same set of black heroes to research every year when I was growing up.... and conservative black geniuses were never included!
I love how conservatives are always shocked and surprised that Communist revolutionaries keep acting like Communist revolutionaries.
Yeah, we gotta be more responsive rather than...well what we are now 🤷♂️
Well, this is what gopcels and lolbercels like Stossel wanted. When we try to suggest Francoism or Talibanism as solution they scream muh freedoms.
Market place of ideas.
Revolutionaries😂 you guys are hilarious 😂
@@midorimashintaro2092
..and you are blind.
I am a Conservative librarian. It is a difficult job. But, I find there are many Conservative patrons who need me to be here. I wish we could get these types of Children's books on our shelves. Thank you for doing what you do.
Thomas Sowell is absolutely brilliant. I discovered him less than six months ago, but it feels like he comes up literally everywhere I look.
This is why parallel economies are great. When anyone, whether it is publishing or content creators like Disney/Marvel are met with QUALITY competition that isn't woke they will eventually lose. The key is quality alternatives.
Edit: comment was changed to Disney/marvel after the fact, so meaningless now I guess,
Content creators like Disney and marvel? Those are the same thing.... Disney's probably half the film market right now
The problem is long and many communistic tentacles have infiltrated all public institutions and many private ones as well. How do they get eradicated?
Daily Wire
Did you really have to create a new term to mean 'competitive market'?
That works in a truly free market, at least, but I'm not sure we live in a truly free market anymore. The corrupt federal government has put its fingers on the scale.
Thomas Sowell is a national treasure. It's a shame he isn't taught about in school.
I’m over 40 and I just heard of him a few months ago from watching TH-cam videos! I wish I had learned about him in school! I want to read that book about him, even at this age!
As soon as I saw that book I knew I wanted it
Well that's because the narrative is that blacks are helpless and can't succeed without help. His story destroys that viewpoint.
@@macethorns1168 It looks like you’re comment isn’t showing, but yes, Sowell’s story destroys the narrative that we (black people) are oppressed and perpetual victims, who need assistance to succeed in life.
@@Maki-00 Thomas has a channel you can follow. He hasn't been active on it for a couple years now but he has people manage it for him as far as I know. I've been following his work for about 6 years now. Very smart man. Here's an interesting fact. In his 20's he joined the communist party in America and was a marxist. Thankfully he quickly left that behind after he saw how evil and destructive it was. Not just for black folk, but for all people. Ever since his awakening he has spoken out against it and the Democrat machine. Its refreshing to see a man like him who realized the game and started to dismantle it. The path he walked is a guidebook and a template for other folk like him to avoid falling into the same trap. Reasons why marxists highly dislike him. He's a wrecking ball to the whole democrat narrative.
As a conservative science fiction writer, I can identify with this 100%!!!
When I read the phrase "conservative science fiction writer", I envisioned aliens who come to earth and extoll the importance of free speech and the right to keep and bear ray guns. 😂
In Australia it took three yrs to get one Universtity to offer a course in Western civilisation and that course is privately funded .
@@palaceofwisdom9448 Specifically Ronald Ray Guns?
@@palaceofwisdom9448 look at John Ringo's books.
Science Fiction is why I hold conservative values. Heinlein, Steakly, David Brin, John C Wright, Huxley, Howard, Ringo, Flint, Bradbury... and for fantasy who can forget Terry Goodkind? Almost all the best classics are from conservative writers. I still laugh that Orwell was leftist but wrote one of the best conservative books ever made!
"I remember when the librarian was an older woman. We didn't know about her personal life, we didn't want to know about her personal life. She didn't have a personal life."
A fate worse than death
There are a lot of "woke" older women these days....Sad.
@@larsonfamilyhouse Clarence Odbody: "SHE'S AT THE LIBRARY!" :sobs:
What's unsettling about a lot of these political books is how much they heavily sugarcoat the stories and make them look overly friendly, good and innocent. It's creepy, like the utopian intro to a movie setting that's too perfect, and reveals it's actually a dystopian horror nightmare.
What are these people doing to kids who then will be shocked when they discover the atrocities governments commit? The violence? This is scary. We already have a youth independence crisis with millions of people unable to cope with the real world. And people who aren't exposed to policing in the US and don't realize how authoritarian and aggressive it is, until it is too late. When will adults learn how devastating childhood sheltering is? When it's too late?
Some of the books aimed at children and purchased by schools and school libraries heavily manipulate the facts and even outright lie to kids. Of particular note are some of the current crop of gender ideology books being purchased by schools. Even the better books sugar coat facts or sometimes present opinions as facts. Schools seem to be all about "social justice" nowadays, and less about teaching kids how to assess information, look at various perspectives and firm their own opinion. Opinions are too often provided to students pre-formed. I have even seen a teacher insist that her students' career exploration projects embed a social justice element.
So, as a partial antidote, here is one children's picture book you can use to counter the dogma and help kids learn to think critically: Facts vs Opinions vs Robots, by Michael Rex.
Why do kids even need to learn about any political ideology. They should be reading books designed to grow their imagination and creativity.
Unfortunately, that isn't happening in the libraries and public schools. No more Amelia Bedelia(sp).
Maybe the books say something like even if you're dumb you can still be a success like AOC.
Exactly.
100%
They should but obviously that's no longer the case. If they only hear one side they'll never know if it was wrong or right. They'll just believe that's the way it is.
It really bugs me that they are always pushing Ginsberg. I see a lot of younger people thinking she was the first woman Supreme Court Justice. Sandra Day O'Conner was the first and was appointed by Reagan. I didn't always agree with her rulings but she was a thousand times better than Ginsberg and SHE WAS THE FIRST!
It just goes to show you can't beat the liberals at their own game. They will ignore whatever you do and one up you at the same time.
Well we are just now getting the first black Supreme Court justice. It only counts if you lean left.
Why do you have to pit them against each other? They are Supreme Court justices, they are supposed to be impartial arbiters of the law.
Plus, Sandra Day O’ Conner was a total affirmative action appointment. Regan said as much.
Absolutely
I'm a Librarian and a Libertarian. Thank you!
Hello, a Barnes & Noble Bookseller here. I would like to thank you for making this video, as I have often noticed this myself! I'm glad to see this topic discussed.
If you're a Barnes & Noble retailer and you've "noticed" this too, maybe you should DO something about it rather than merely notice it.
@@donaldstinnett5630 Well I can't really do anything I'm just a Bookseller. I can order in what books that I can for the store to keep a balance, but unfortunately my store is more left wing than right, so even if I were to suggest a display, it would likely not go anywhere. Again, that's if we even carry said right wing books.
@razorback10 This is why people apply for managerial positions. Not only better pay, but you get to call the shots and fix problems like these. Same goes for librarians. If real people don't do the work the whole running of things gets left to default to failures who never learned anything productive and must take crummy jobs as cheap hirelings.
I was just at a Barnes and Noble and the kids section is a groomer hellhole. So many propaganda books it was disheartening.
@@syrenasketches6902 Yes, unfortunately it is like this.
To make a change, start requesting the books at the local public libraries.
If you make the requests they often get shipped from libraries that carry them. They in turn will order more copies to meet demand.
You can also ask the libraries why they are not carrying a book series you want or even a book about a person you want to read about.
Libraries want support and you don't get supported if you don't carry things people want.
"Libraries want support[,] and you don't get supported if you don't carry things [which] people want."
Unless you are a "public" (government) library, then local Republicans will insist on continuing to keep taxpayer funding for these libraries because Republicans tell each other, "We always have!", and will never consider PRIVATIZING the local municipal or county library.
Up until about the 1850s, in the U.S. and in Britain, local lending libraries were PRIVATE subscription or other philanthropic enterprises. (Merchant and "mechanics'" libraries were commercial enterprises. There were also "lyceums", "athenaeums", "literary & philosophical societies" [also known as "lit & phils"], "mechanics' institutes", etc..)
This was also the same time that most American states created their "public school" systems, and took control of American children's education away from their parents.
We need a separation of general education (and art and culture) from state for the same moral and practical reasons we have a separation of church and state.
Government is an instrument of FORCE, it is not an appropriate arbiter of IDEAS (particularly regarding the True, the Good, and the Beautiful).
This. If no one is asking for certain books no one is ordering them. But MAINLY if no one is checking the books out that are ordered you have wasted valuable collection development money. If you order ten type a books and ten type b books and check out usage statistics and type a books were checked out 3 times per book and type b were checked out 50 times per book you are going to order mainly type b books the next year. It’s simply good business. A good library has both sides of every issue and if they don’t they’ll happily order whatever you’d like. But if no one is coming in to check out type b books and they sit on the shelf taking up space they’re going to get weeded out and sold at the book sale to make room for stuff that people are coming in for.
You have to KNOW the book is available... in order to "order" it. And, you will not KNOW it is available... unless you SEE it. I have asked about numerous books at the local library. They are NEVER available. When asked why... all I get is a shrug of the shoulders. The ACTUAL answer is, it is a book from a conservative author. They KNOW it, and will NEVER buy it.
wow! I don't write children's books, I write novels and I was rejected for it because my book doesn't fit the narrative in today's woke society. I was told that my book didn't have enough female characters and it wasn't inclusive enough with race. I didn't think that the same would happen to writers who write children's books. Maybe it's time to create a publishing company of our own that allows both not just one group. Comic Books are already woke and sales are not doing so well, there are people I know that are creating their own and are doing very well.
Imaging writing a book whenre you don't ever mention anyone's race and treat all characters as individuals. What a concept!
Let me know about this new publishing company. I would love to be apart of it!
Check out Castalia House.
I was looking for a new book a while back and one in particular was showing up on many lists (I don't recall the name). I looked it up and it was getting rave reviews. Then I started noticing all the "diversity" mentions. Turns out this book does not have a single male character, but was praised for its insight on the future and its diversity.
@@zuko9085 my book was rejected because it lacked the amount female characters they wanted and different race. The main character in my story is male and talks about how empty society is with technology, my character travels to Norway and learns about the world again outside from technology, it talks about culture, nature, food, music, people, and even the importance of fatherhood.
"In girls' children's literature there's absolutely zero messaging about motherhood." This. I wanted so badly to be a mother, but was always told it was the inferior choice. At one point in college I was thinking out loud and said, "Sometimes I think about giving up medicine entirely to get married and have kids." The response surprised me. Friends were openly repulsed. A man I looked up to said, "That would be such a waste!"
I'm happily married now. Got to birth four beautiful children. Did foster care for several years. Got to adopt three beautiful children. I've never had a career other than homemaker, foster mother, and homeschool teacher. Wouldn't have it any other way.
Great !!.
Despite all their highfalutin talk, the left really hates humanity . That's why our current leftist society actively discourages women from having children.
Many young women are pursuing demanding careers (like medicine). Likely, few realize that their best years for childbearing will be devoted to education and starting their careers.
Those who delay marriage and childbearing to pursue other things may find themselves unmarried and/or childless in their 30s and beyond and experience great grief as a result. They were not mindful that that could be a consequence of their earlier choices.
Young women need to be told that their ability to bear children is a precious gift that should not be taken for granted. If delayed, they may experience temporal or permanent infertility.
Adopted instead of your own? Cringe.
Two experiences in public school stand out in my mind when I think about this. In fifth grade, we wrote about what we wanted to do as adults. After a long list of potential jobs/careers, I wrote something like "if I can't do that, I'll just be a mom." My teacher made a point to emphasize that motherhood isn't less than in any way. I already knew that, and just hadn't phrased my writing well; I always planned to be a mother no matter what. Thinking back, I'm glad she spoke up about it in front of others, because while I didn't need that message, maybe someone else did. In ninth grade, my English teacher was trying to make some point (can't remember what), and said something like, "Raise your hand if you just want to be a housewife.". I proudly raised my hand, surprising the teacher, but her point still stood because I was the *only* one raising my hand. It's pretty disappointing that as a general society, we put so little emphasis on (or actively discourage/attack/disparage) the most important aspects of human life: family relationships.
That’s why my wife and I decided to home-school. I taught in a public school and I saw what they were doing to our kids.
Problem is conservatives always lose. We need to form schools and fire these schools boards. Don’t let them take power. Then when we win, punish them.
I mocked homeschool kids as a kid, and swore I'd never homeschool mine. Now that I'm mid-life, i'd never send my kids to a public school, and greatly value my responsibility of training and educating my own kids.
Nah you guys are making a big mistake. Your kids should socialize, once covid hit I literarily sat with no friend and had a poor learning environment.
Edit: Listen I get it, I don't want to hear your crap anymore. From my personal experience, homeschool sucks compared to real life. Like 10 of you keep saying the same thing. This is why people delete their comments.
In Australia it took three yrs to get one Universtity to offer a course in Western civilisation and that course is privately funded .
@@42luke93 funny enough, my homeschooled kids actually socialized more during COVID than they did beforehand. Cuz more families started homeschooling and we had more kids to play with at the park during "school hours". Before that, our homeschool community was relatively small. Most of the neighborhood kids were in school all day and had homework after school so they didn't ever come outside to play, or if they did it wasn't until super late in the day. But my kids are done with school by noon most days, sometimes even earlier, and would run outside and play all afternoon. My two youngest are ok playing with each other for the most part, but my oldest is a social butterfly who loves having friends and the park was always empty until 4 or 5 in the afternoon which is close to dinner time.
Now our homeschool group gets together at the park weekly at 1 and we even have a monthly nerf war. Because we all finish so early, that leaves plenty of time for playing with friends. :)
I find it particularly interesting that she highlights how motherhood is not taught much to young girls in a positive light anymore. I am young woman who works and I enjoy it for now, but if I get married in the future, I would absolutely prefer full time stay at home mothering than to be punching for higher career goals. It's great that women have a choice to work, which was not always possible, but truly only for about half a century has it been EXPECTED instead of or on top of motherhood.
A poll found that 51% of women want to be stay at home mothers and wives. That's not what was expected. The lockdowns showed women how nice that is despite the messaging being shoved down our throat. I've regularly come under attack online because I chose to be a SHM. I've been told I offer nothing to society, that I'm worthless. etc.
I'm in my 40s, and even when I was a girl, it felt like girls were constantly being told, "You can be ANYTHING!!!" But if you said, "I want to be a mom," you would get laughed at, and derisively asked, "Is that all?" It was as if the message was actually, "You can be anything EXCEPT a mom."
That is great! It would be important to find a spouse that would value you as a wife and mother in the home and to prepare to live on one income with accordant lifestyle expectations. Bear in mind that debt from college loans often hampers a woman's ability to be at home with her children; paying such off early would really help.
I was blessed to be a SAHM, but we lived frugally--my husband took the bus to help keep expenses down, for example. I would do it all over again if I could. Children need their mother's presence, nurture, and care. Good for you for thinking ahead! Encourage those around you to do the same!
No, women has always been EXPECTED to work. Who do you think were the maids, the governess, the nanny, the seamstress, the cook, the laundry washer, the scullery maids etc etc etc? Rich women were forbidden to work, even going to the kitchen will taint them, but all other women are expected to work. Even children were expected to work, so why do you ever think women were never expected to work?
If you don't work for a noble, your life is even more miserable. Back then, women were expected to walk miles to draw water, to cut firewoods, to tend to fire, to cook, to clean, feed the animals and milk the cows etc etc etc. A lot of them don't go out for paying work because work at home was too much already. Also, do you think they actually take care of the kids? Maybe for the first born, but for subsequent children the eldest child would take care of the younger siblings.
Most of American's problem is they forgot the whole world was in a rubble and they profit off the War that's why some white women could afford to sit back and relax. The rest of the world, women continue to work because the men were dead in the war. But somehow nowadays they think it's the norm for women to not work. Like, no. You are not as rich as a country you were previously, so of course you need to work. Just like the rest of the world.
@@tynj4173 I hear your grief! Little girls are propagandized from early their elementary years onward that their goal in life should be college and career. A woman devoted to marriage, motherhood, and homemaking is on a completely different 'life track.' Our culture does everything that it can to remove that model from people's minds. There are young women out there that want to be a wife and mother, but often they are afraid to speak up as it is going against the grain of society. You might even help a young woman to 'deconstruct' the lies of feminism as you talk about the consequences of women's choices and their impact on family life later on.
You are still young! Don't settle! Talk about these things with others boldly. Help to wake people up! As a young man of 17, you are more mature than most people your age. Marriage and family are great blessings, especially when moms and dads are fulfilling their traditional roles as God intended. Children certainly benefit--what child would ask to grow up in a 'center?' Children naturally want and need their mothers--not hired caregivers! Feminism is no friend to marriage, family, and children.
John Stossel, the hero the entire world needs, but doesn't know it. I remember growing up at my grandparents hearing the TV playing in the living room, while I played with Legos, overhearing your interesting segments since I was 6 years old. I'm 34 now. Mr Stossel is nothing shirt of a national (if not galactic) treasure. The pursuit of truth is the most noble and he's been spearheading the effort for decades. Long live John Stossel.
Thanks for bringing awareness that this exists. As a new father I'll definitely be purchasing soon
Same.
Me too.
Great, More parents MUST take a more active role in their child's education. Govt. education is destroying American children's minds when they are most vulnerable. If you cannot home school, you must give your kids the proper reading material.
PragerU's Otto's Tales series is also a great choice as it teaches kids about American values.
What I as a European find most fascinating is that you have biographies of Supreme Court justices and politicians aimed at children. The whole concept is totally alien to me, what kid wants to read about a supreme court justice?
yep same here that part of life should not involve politics
The intention here seems to be to fabricate left-wing interests in children, not to cater to their true interests.
Partially for knowledge purposes but usually what I saw was books about significant political people were for use in school projects. Usually a biography assignment or something.
It's more that the parents want to read it to their kids than the kids want to read it themselves.
@@Xamufam As an American, I agree. Children are too young to need to be taught politics.
Ive been a huge fan of THOMAS SOWELL since I started reading his columns in a local paper during college. Despite his age his mind is still sharp as a tack. He has slowed down a bit naturally - but his mind is still top notch.
Eh, all of (neo)classical liberalism is pretty mids. Maybe look up behavioral economics and see how economics actually works in the real world. If you think you can boil supply and demand down to human rationality, then you're not accounting for the irrational tendencies humans have.
@Don M
He told people to vote for Trump instead of the libertarian candidate, I can’t trust him.
@@giantsr1eva libertarians won’t stop degenerates from trying to shoving gender ideology down children’s throats, nor will they fight against the normalization of ped op helia by activist groups. F Israel slave trump too.
@@giantsr1eva Given that libertarians NOT voting for Trump would almost certainly have resulted in a Clinton win, Sowell's advice was sound. I know many people dislike "lesser of two evils" decision-making, but it's often the only way to avoid the greater of two evils.
@@stevenscott2136
Are you saying that we should abandon our values so that one party can win? What is libertarian about the republican or democrat party? We just had a republican president who added 7.8 trillion dollars to the national debt. How can Thomas Sowell vote for that?
The book bias is exactly why I stopped shopping at Barnes and Noble years ago.
Same. I should probably use my old gift cards since they have the money already.
Go to them and demand better
I kind of am by shopping elsewhere. No drama, and it's sort of the old school way of taking care of business; being choosy about where I do my business. But I appreciate the sentiment! In some contexts, absolutely. Stand up and engaging the system to make the changes one feels is necessary. Buying books or coffee isn't it for me.
As an elementary school teacher, I have seen this problem for years! Thanks for making this more widely known!
I miss my childhood days when there was innocent propaganda like GI Joe fighting cobra.
With the Kung Fu grip? 🤔
You mean that white supremacist fighting the black Cobras!? RAYCIST
Hey kid, wanna buy some tooooooooooooooyssssss?
In Australia it took three yrs to get one Universtity to offer a course in Western civilisation and that course is privately funded .
Or He-Man defeating Skeletor, followed by a message from Orko about being a good citizen.
it's extremely humorous, yet baffling, at how many children's books there are about one of the most unpopular vice presidents in US history lol
As said on video, nor parents nor kids are getting these books anyway
Its just political mingling
For all that matters they could just have them locked in a container storage, the fun is with government handing libraries "investments " then the libraries "donate" it back
As long there's public funding profit isn't mandatory
But the VP is black and female. That is the only qualification that matters in this idiocracy.
@@travisb1757 She's awful.
I'm confident that I'm not the only Blue voter who thinks that she and Joe are clowns, to the least.
@@jed-henrywitkowski6470 And yet, YOU are a "Blue voter". How silly is THAT???
Printed Books are incredibly important for our Free Thinking society
We seem to not have a free thinking society
Hopefully those Books will not Be filled with Randomly capitalized Words.
In Australia it took three yrs to get one Universtity to offer a course in Western civilisation and that course is privately funded .
@@palaceofwisdom9448 I'm not Sure what You're referring To.
The left ruins everything, including freedom, the book publishing industry, and ultimately, the country itself.
These look really great! Thank you for sharing these conservative stories. We hope to provide more to children!
Parents, the key to success! Bethany, you're exactly what America needs for our children!
Parents need to take an active interest in their kids future and not pawn it off on the teachers.
I'm thinking the best alternative is to homeschool.
@@ireadclassiccomics3172 Send them to public school and teach them to not be an asshole and the human race will be fine
Are you saying parents never did that before?
Now I want that sowell book
You are not the only one pal
I just ordered one. :P
My BF was a children's librarian, and while she was personally liberal, she didn't like the wokism and always looked for good quality, not woke topics. And when the woke mob would come for books, like Dr Seuss, she refused to remove them, even when parents would yell at her. Unfortunately, she relocated and left the job, but I hope whomever replaced her had those same beliefs.
When I saw only liberal themed books at my library's new acquisitions shelf, I complained to the nearest librarian I saw. I suggest all library patrons do the same.
Excellent lady and I wish her all the best!
Just shared this video with many people. Thanks for making it!
I am a librarian and I have noticed a lot of children's books and young adult books champion liberal ideas. Usually if I want to order more conservative books I cannot go through my usual booksellers. Say what you will about Amazon, but they pretty much sell everything, liberal and conservative books. I will say the Who Was? series that they showed in this video does have a biography on Winston Churchill and on Jesus. Even though I am a conservative librarian I will say the majority of my peers do lean liberal even in a red state like mine. Teachers also tend to lean liberal (of course not always). Teachers and librarians buy a lot of books in this country.
Dang, you're a librarian??? It must just be the liberal ones that look old and crusty even when they are in their 20's lol. You're hot for a librarian.
I train law enforcement officers and as strange as this sounds, I warn officers to expect pushback from librarians when conducting an investigation. They act as if they shouldn’t cooperate with law enforcement. The truth of the matter is criminals use the library and the libraries are funded with tax dollars.
Sorry but police training in this country sucks bad..wish you would do a better job at your job
@@oscarmckee1471 The training I provide is excellent and I wish all LEOs could attend it.
@@glasshalffull8625 You might think it's excellent but your personality must suck if librarians get skittish around you.
Just keep kids out of politics it's immoral, corrupt as hell and it's just fucking weird making biographies fun for kids
1st book they pull out: "Who was Che Guevara?" (Spits out drink)
Un asesino, racista y asmático.
An evil man, along with Stalin. I as an ethnic Ukrainian (1st gen American), nearly had a conniption when I saw a book about Stalin in the children's section of my local library a few years ago.
Shame on American book stores, illustrators, and librarians. Very sad and in the end, I hope not tragic. Censorship destroys freedom.
Mr Stossel, So glad TH-cam promoted one of your videos. Hearing your voice reminded me of when I watched news and information shows on broadcast TV. I always thought you were credible and informative. My how things have changed. Now if by chance I catch the news on TV, I am very skeptical about whether or not I’m hearing the truth.
Former librarian here. I took early retirement because I'm a conservative who didn't fit in to the super liberal library system. Things to consider:
1)Libraries are funded and run by governments. Mine was funded and overseen by the county government in a super liberal north Florida county. Decisions are not made by librarians or educators, but by county commissioners and citizen committees. A small handful of county employees made decisions on what materials we got. And as a "cost saving measure," we just outsourced that decision to a third party company. Someone in New York now makes the choice as to what materials the county libraries in Florida get.
2) A few years ago, the Aspen center came out with a report on the future of libraries. (Who is the Aspen center? Are they a group of educators or librarians? Nope. I had to hunt for it, but they are a social justice group out of California. Seems they have a report and suggestion for every industry.) What they said is that the future of libraries is not books or physical materials. Libraries need to stop being book warehouses for privileged old people and everything needs to go online. How do you scare librarians into giving up their books? Show them (carefully cultivated) statistics that say no one uses libraries anymore and if they don't adapt, they'll be out of a job. (All the while moving all content online where it can be adapted to suit your narrative.)
When I left, our library was purging books by the thousands to replace them with meeting rooms, online content, and programs, like LGBTQ+ bookclubs. We were told we needed to take anti-racist training and a weeks long training on helping homeless people. I don't want to be a social worker, I wanted to cultivate a love of reading and stories in kids. I was told reading wasn't supposed to be fun, it was for learning. So, I quit.
As a sidenote, I was the only Republican in a library of 8 people. (Well, actually, there was another one, but he was afraid to tell anyone for fear of retaliation.) The whole time I worked there, the other people kept telling me that I wasn't a conservative, I just thought I was because I was raised conservative. I couldn't be, because I was kind, non judgmental, I talked to the employees of colour, I didn't hate gay people, and I was just so nice. I kept telling them that they had bought into the stereotype, but they refused to believe me.
I can confirm that 99% of the books we purchased were completely liberal. (The YA new books were all about diversity and LGBTQ and how terrible this county is.) Even the picture books coming in were about social justice and racism and LGBTQ themes. I got to where I hated looking at our book collection. I grew up loving reading, the worlds in my head, the adventures. We've taken that away from kids. Now if your book isn't teaching an approved social value, we won't carry it. No wonder children don't enjoy reading anymore.
The truth is that Americans have been reading liberal books LONG before this era, as almost all American classics are spiritually leftist. How did it take you this long to realize?
A story straight out of the horror section.
Thanks for the “look behind the curtain” 👍
Thank you for the insight! I have noticed this at libraries and it sickens me. I no longer peruse the newly published books in the children's section. I stick with the old classics that are being banned these days.
@@henlofren7321 - There is liberal and there is leftist. I respect the heck out of classical liberals who just want to make life better for people. We agree to disagree about how to do that, but we do it civilly. Those "leftist" classics are teaching solid values, just maybe not the ones or in a way the religious right agreed with. A modern leftist teaches victimhood and systemic racism and the 1619 project. It's Marxism in a new costume. Don't confuse Mark Twain with AOC.
John, I appreciate you covering this. It is something I’ve noticed myself in bookstores and libraries. I consider myself more libertarian than a conservative, but my ideologies align more closely with the right than the left. The woke left, and their objectives like big government, restrictive laws, social mandates, and more control over personal freedom and opportunities should concern all libertarians! The left wants to control all aspects of your life from the cradle to the grave. This should frighten any freedom-loving libertarian to their very core!
Yep! 🤓🍻
Except, as said, 90 per-cent of librarians donate to leftists, vote leftist, and BUY leftist. And, that control and $$$ is also in the media. And, that control and $$$ is also in the majority of government agencies.
John is a libertarian. I like this guy.
I'm in the miltary schools and the library's are overrun with woke garbage.
I’m going to buy several of these books for my young nephews. Thank you for letting me know they exist.
In Australia it took three yrs to get one Universtity to offer a course in Western civilisation and that course is privately funded .
He won't read it. What kind of children cares about politics?
Thanks John you keep knocking it out of the park!
Thomas Sowell is an amazing man every kid should learn about
I see you like Gundam... However, I always preferred G Gundam over Gundam Wing though.
@@ShinnAsukaYESTaylorSwiftNO G fighter?
Yep.
@@ShinnAsukaYESTaylorSwiftNO you do know among the Gundam fandom, wing and G fighter are the most hated
@@quatreraberbawinner2628 no. I actually thought that they were beloved by many (especially here in the US).
I was born in the 70’s I think we were less racist in high school than today. We saw race but it didn’t dictate our behavior. If we liked you we liked you. Kids today trying to shock will say the n word. I swear we never said it, it was rude and low class.
Anyone who judges another human being by the color of their skin, their ethnicity, nationality or their religion is an absolute fool.
I own and operate a lending library of exclusively English books in China. The number of English books I will not allow on my shelves is astounding. I refuse to expose children to alphabet clan talking points and themes and anything that touches on any form of racism. Sad, but it seems you have to write a 'politically aware' story to be nominated for a number of awards these days so I can no longer blindly purchase Caldecott or Newbery medal winning/nominated books. I'm also getting tired of the 'girl power' and 'we need to save the planet' stories. They're way overdone and many are simply unhinged.
Children do NOT need to be exposed to any of this.
Work in a school library and totally agree. We've become VERY picky on the award books we buy.
A Wrinkle in Time, the book, was real girl power to me growing up. So was Little Women, Secret Garden, A Little Princess...a lot of mythology and folklore, biographies of real women.
I highly recommend the Talmud for your bookstore.
@@LavenderBlue-g1j Loved Little Women. Each girl had a different ambition so all were represented. It also taught that what you think you want might not really be what's best for you later.
I agree. Some of these books are graphic too. This is happening because of DEI (I prefer DIE as more accurate). It's why the Oscar's have now put those as more important in a movie getting an award than if it's good art or impacts how films are made. That's been the case in literature for awhile and why a completely fake story like 1619 got a Pulitzer.
As someone from outside the Western world, I grew up consuming western media without seeing much of race. Only when I started studying abroad in the west did I start seeing such hyperawareness of race, so I thought it's pretty weird.
It's because the hyperawareness really started within the last five years or so.
@@ireadclassiccomics3172 Yep. It's a new thing. And not healthy!
Same here
@@ireadclassiccomics3172 the groundwork had been laid for quite a while
It's hyper indoctrination. And "They" can shove it
Not just children books, entertainment in general has gone woke. Places like the Daily Wire are fighting back with non woke content.
“Entertainment” since WW2 has always been subversive. Almost like we actually lost that war.
Disney writer: I just "gay up" kids' entertainment as much as I can. 🤮
Ben's just the other side of the spectrum, I agree with him when he is dismantling leftist arguments but I don't agree with his solutions either.
Ben actually uses the same tactics, he will agree we need to cut foreign funding and focus on America but if you mention cutting funding to the country we fund the most you are an anti-Semite.
@@bryanutility9609 lol
@@briant7265 disgusting
I have a super easy suggestion for any normal person who just wants to encourage reading in young kids. It's called buy them second hand and then check to make sure. If you get them before probably 1995 it should be fine. Anything between 1995 and probably 2005 needs to be carefully scrutinized. Anything later than that should be avoided until they're older and you've had conversations. And for the record, I'm black. I grew up on military installations and we literally didn't realize there were different races. There was no expectation that everybody be the same. All our parents wore the same uniform. That's what mattered to us. So the "refusing to acknowledge race being bad" is something somebody made up. All that mattered was whether or not you played fair.
It's so refreshing to find real journalism videos about anything! Love this channel.
The most alarming thing to me is how librarians are basically functioning as political curators, preventing certain messages from finding a home. It's completely antithetical to the spirit of a library.
If you don't like it then become a librarian lmao
I'm sure we have laws requiring a variety of points of view in the library. The problem is our laws are now selectively enforced in this country.
@@ireadclassiccomics3172 Do you actually know of any laws like that? I think it might be a good idea to have them but I'm doubtful that there actually are any.
@@vrclckd-zz3pv we do have laws like that in Norway.
There's an issue in what is actually produced though, as the whole system favors new books, not old.
"If you claim to be color-blind, you deny what's right in front of you."
Not unlike how we now humor men pretending to be women.
That insidious quote is like saying, "If you deny being racist, you deny reality."
Yeah we all detect different shades of skin -- so what -- we're all part of the human race, we're not morons.
Pointing out that the red-head in the corner is who you're looking for is not denying color. But aside from the merely descriptive, it shouldn't matter.
I think the most important thing about children’s stories is that they should be engaging for the children.
Children’s story shouldn’t be about adults’ political values. It’s just not fun.
True. Kids are not old enough to want to care. Let kids play enjoy life before cramming RBGs views on abortion down their throats.
yah, i was thinking that, too. but i dunno... like it or not, kids are being indoctrinated through every possible outlet, so maybe you do have to actively counter that programming somehow. and to be fair, the Thomas Sowell book didn't sound half bad and not overtly political.
@@roseypeach8363 Personal choices for literature depend on age and maturity.
When I think of "kids books", I'm thinking ages 1-5, and that's what this age range seems to be, though I don't recall Stossel mentioning it.
He also avoids talking about the worst propaganda kids are subjected to, and have been for thousands of years - religious nonsense. Have we become too acclimated to those lies?
Between ages 5 and 10, the only things I recall reading were hated school assignments for dummies.
Around age 11, I discovered others; Stephen King, Clive Barker, metal magazines like Hit Parader, Metal Edge, Kerrang!, and of course, girlie mags like penthouse.
School literature got much better in middle school. I remember reading Fahrenheit 451.
Yeah I won't lie, that part with the little kids spouting about conservative values grosses me out. It's like seeing kids holding a sign at a rally. I think that's just wrong. Of course the kids will be indoctrinated to appoint in the home, but how about they become adults with their own opinions before they go to a rally. I don't give a shit what the rally is about, don't have your kids actively participate as if it's their own opinion.
I agree this Sowell book is propaganda too
Make John Stossel Have Airtime Again! John report is something that all journalists should aspire to aim for. Thank you John.
You are a treasure! Fight on! RIGHT ON!
These books don’t even have to be political. Where are the biographies of Lise Meitner, Dr. Frances Kelsey, Dr. Charles Drew? It isn’t /just/ the exclusion of conservative biographies, it is the extreme push of solely progressive personas.
Yes! 100%!
I am waiting for my first set of books from Heroes of Liberty! For my grandchildren and myself 👏
I know I’m way too old and have no children, but I want that Thomas Sowell book.
me too. lol
He's written dozens of books and each of them I've read has been great. He does the deep research and backs everything up with empirical facts and references ... things that are commonly missing from woke books.
@@DianeMerriam Exactly. The left just tries to appeal to people’s emotions and hope they don’t ask for details, let alone proof.
They also try to paint us as racists, yet here we are, geeking out over one of the greatest intellectual minds out there…who just happens to be black.
Dude, I thought you had like 7 billion children.
@@Bepreparedtolive you’re thinking of my dad. Oh wait, I am my dad…and my son.
I’ll take a DNA test! Y’all can’t prove you’re my kids!
I’m also a Libertarian, I don’t think any kind brain washing; even conservative brain washing.
Good for Bethany Mandel
not gonna lie, i really want that Thomas Sowell book for my son so when he grows up a bit more i can read it to him. Thomas Sowell is my hero
I know, I think it's so awesome to have a good introduction to Thomas Sowell.
I work at a Barnes and Noble in South Florida and I think I can provide a decent amount of insight into this world. For my store which sells the most in South Florida, our customer base is more conservative and we are in the center of the city. Many people from different countries, not only Americans, are looking for books that challenge beliefs and help bolster the mind. I personally have been able to reinvigorate sales of philosophers from Marcus Aurelius to Hobbes to Marx to Ayn Rand. Letting people choose and explore ideas is true freedom. This is why I dislike the children’s area because it is only woke type books. There are no books about any conservative types, even the most popular being Reagan or Churchill. The indoctrination is heavy on that and publishers are more to blame I think.
The lefties know the secret is to get the children.
Publishers have their own employees stage demonstrations when they publish Jordan Peterson FFS. "Clean your room" "Take on a burden and conquer it so you will be a benefit to your family and society". What a Nazi!
Bruh, you stock shelves. Ain’t no one going up to a Barnes and Nobel employee for book recs. Not that any of the individuals you mentioned are lacking in book sales or recognition.
@@melinaharker9177 Not true. That is one of the many tasks we are given now. We are expected to be jacks of all trade in the operations and knowledge of section and functions. There have been many times I have been asked to recommend books and I always go for classic literature.
Just received my Thomas Sowell 📕 🎉
How is the book? I am considering buying it for a friend
This is great! As a parent of young children, this is what I've been searching for. Thank you!
Mr. Stossel keep up the great work. .You present common sense values with the freedom to agree or disagree. Isn't that the purpose of our Constitution? Please continue doing what you are doing.
I see a lot of people here saying kids don't need to be reading biographies or other non fiction... but that is part of an education! Kids are required in several grades to report on a biography and they should have lots of choices so they can learn about lots of different people and philosophies!
At the age that's targeted here that is still ridiculous though.
I agree, but they should be biographies of important people. I am British, and the idea of having a large market of biographies aimed at children, made up of such nonentities as 'RBG' or 'ACB' astounds me. When I was a child I read biographies - of Robert Stephenson, James Watt, King Alfred and Oliver Cromwell - not of ephemeral political appointees!
If you want a Justice to teach your children about, I suggest Judge Jeffreys...
I’ll totally look into her books. Got tired of goin to barnes. Thrift stores and book sales for children are also good alternatives
American illustrator here. I would illustrate for these books.
What's a library? "That place we used to say we were going to, before the internet."
Let’s not forget Dr. Ben Carson, world renowned pediatric neurosurgeon, philanthropist and head of HUD. He grew up in poverty and became a self-made man.
That is one of the things the late great Rush Limbaugh was doing with his books as well. They were so popular the NY Times had to redo their rankings to stop him from being on top.
Every student should be introduced to Thomas Sowell, he is a true thinker who is far beyond his time and a national treasure in so many ways.
And yet Sowell's classical liberalism doesn't account for human irrationality. Behavioral Economics is more informative about why people make the decisions they do.
I will absolutely be buying some of these books very soon, as I have two boys ages 6 and 2.5. The Thomas Sowell one is the biggest draw.
Of course I'm also waiting on my copy of Johnny the Walrus, which is supposed to arrive by the end of the month. SBG for life.
Non-left-leaning small town librarian here. Please, please, please use your library. Please develop a positive relationship with your librarians. Politely request materials through interlibrary loan. Check out or request classic books. Actually using your library and getting to know your librarians will do more than attending library board meetings and angrily demanding books be removed from the shelves. Demanding the removal of materials only reinforces the negative stereotypes librarians have about people who disagree with them. Using your library and requesting the types of materials you would like to see there will have a greater positive impact on the people making the choices about what your library purchases. Being a good library patron is the way to influence your librarians.
It is absolutely true that librarians are coming out of library school thoroughly steeped in critical theory. Sadly, most libraries are no longer the neutral spaces they are supposed to be. Using your library, especially interlibrary loan, can change that.
I saw Bethany on Tim Poole's show. Keep up the fight for our children.
So glad you covered this. I have noticed also that LGBT books get front and center in the libraries. Plenty of new kids books seem to have something LGBTQIA+ inside, even if the book is about collecting rocks or something else just fun. Does a woke issue have to be in every kid book? It is too stressful. Kids literature has certainly changed. Also, it can sometimes be hard to find classic children's books that have been read for decades. I even had trouble finding some C.S. Lewis. We've already seen the assault on Dr. Seuss and Laura Ingalls Wilder. I think libraries should be expansive in literature choices. And some of the newer books that talk about people from the past, for instance Columbus, would downplay any significance he had in history and would make him out to be more villainous than heroic. To be fair, some older books may have tried to make everybody seem saintly, but the newer ones seem to be more vicious and only focus on the faults and sins of past heroes. We can see that in the way that Washington and Jefferson are now presented in our culture. For whatever their faults, we have a great nation because of men like them. Parents certainly have to be aware of what kids books really say.
Front and center all the time , I noticed this in Canada 5 yrs ago. I used to hide them behind the other books so it wouldn't be on display. Is that bad?
You are a rebel, much like myself when I was younger. I can't condemn you without condemning myself. Once I was angry at the world for being so wicked. Now I just try to make it better.
@@geraldnykamp way to go
Never forget these people hate their existance and wish they were never born. Tell them that you appreciate life and will continue to fruitfully multiply. Also collect these old stories and read them to your kids. Dont wait till their gone.
Kesha, Thank you for your right-on comments. Has your family watched 'Little House on the Prairie' (Free) on Xfinity - Peacock, Pluto, etc.? So well written and uplifting! Michael Landon's talent is desperately needed on today's TV family viewing. What can kids see today besides Sponge Bob and the Woke gay/transgender characters? How welcoming it is to see 'Little House' with its family and spiritual values! More of this type of show could keep our kids off the streets and away from gun violence.
WE NEED TO TELL EVERYONE ABOUT THIS PUBLISHER
We also need to complain at our local libraries when we see only left-wing oriented books.
They push RGB, but ignore O'Connor.
O'connor was a Lefty
Barns and nobles removed the Christian kids books from the kids section and put them with the adult Christian books across the store. Books a milligram has them in the adults too but it’s kept near the kids section.
Ya know how when grandma says the N word, or when you find blatantly racist stuff from back in the day with some guy all dressed up in black face smiling like there’s nothing wrong with that and everyone just feels kinda awkward cause we know it’s not cool or ok..... in the future our kids kids are going to find stuff from our age, like kids books that are blatantly talking to kids about far too mature content and they are going to have that same feeling of “this is wrong” and that’s a good thing.
Im glad we’re turning the page little bit by little bit and I hope soon we can let the kids just get back to being kids with genuinely educational content, they deserve to explore the world they will create not perpetuate the mistakes that were made before they were even born.
No child wants to read a biography. They want fun and exciting stories.
There are awesome books out there that will hold children's interest; parents just need to guide their children to them! I highly recommend Boys of Grit Who Changed the World and Boys of Grit Who Became Men of Honour by Archer Wallace.
Also, I highly recommend the series by Janet and Geoff Benge titled Christian Heroes Then & Now. Exciting, true stories in the series include biographies about Olympic track champion Eric Liddell, jungle pilot Nate Saint, and scoundrel-turned-changed man George Muller. Muller's changed life and subsequent ministry to others impacted thousands of lives; a life-changing read is his life's story! Even better, parents can read these stories aloud to their children and share the adventures!
Imagine reading a book about Elizabeth Warren. Good Lord it must be like punishment for a kid.
She's a total nincompoop
0:34 anybody else hear "Killary Clinton"? Lol
Greta: "How dare you publish a book about me while wasting energy and contributing to global CO2 emissions"
How dare you not increase my royalties 💰
Saw John Stossel on 20/20 (thanks to my parents) back in the day as a kid. It's awesome to see that he's still a voice of commonsense and reason. Great stuff!
I think God that I don't have little kids today. This is just sad.
I need to give these people my money! Sucks I don't have any kids. I might bulk order their books and donate them to a local school or something.
Great idea! I work at a school library and we love donations! (Although you'd probably have to talk to the librarian... like she said in the video, many are left leaning and may not "accept" these books)
Wonderful idea!! Me too!
I give only to explicitly conservative organizations and publishers these days. Everything else is just a waste of money.
What?!? No mention of the book, Johnny the Walrus, by bestselling LGBT children’s author, Matt Walsh?
Lol that is a fatal error
Children's books now are absolute garbage! Pure twaddle (for my fellow homeschool peeps) lol. As a homeschooling family the library has always been our favorite place but over the years the level of SJW or just pure dumbed down literature that is available far outnumbers anything of quality.
If there aren't publishers that cater explicitly to the homeschooling market, there should be!!
Yes. Twaddle. I've seen it too. The other day I saw a book series based on the TV show Gossip Girl.
I just started buying used books online, yard sales, used book sales, and ebay. I found that half the time the book I wanted wasn’t available at my library (and it’s a giant county system with about 10+ libraries). I didn’t like my kids going into the library to choose whatever they wanted because, well propaganda. It’s our science and our history curriculum. I usually buy it if I hear it’s banned for racism. Once in a while they actually are but usually it’s just anti SJW.
Yes! John Stossel talking about these books and including the Tuttle Twins!! This is awesome! Keep these videos up John!
LOL, who’s going into bookstores these says??
I love this woman, she speaks the truth. 🤩
Bravo, John Stossel, lookin’ good; you gave up the hair dye!!
Is it just me or is ANY biographical book on a political or social giant out of place in a KID’s library? Imagine a kid picking a Kamala Harris book over a Dr Seuss😆
Well, kids are usually required to report on biographies at school. I work at a school library and we try to keep a wide range of them; some of them are really fun and well written! But you're right, they don't get picked up much until assigned. But you'd be surprised at how much non- fiction gets checked out overall.
Back in my day, we would report on the true giants like Benjamin Franklin.
My 10 yo son is deep into Daniel Boone right now. YES, some kids love history and biographies.
The problem is Kamala Harris is no political or social giant. A book about Teddy Roosevelt? Sure, but what kid wants to read about Kamala Harris?
Wow, my school’s sucked. We were never given assignments on great Americans. Inner city schools!
I can't help but laugh at people who think its a great idea to "offer alternatives" when were talking about blatant political propaganda in CHILDREN'S BOOKS. It's proposed as if toddlers are going to peruse the selection and purchase the books themselves -when we all know it's actually going to be their shitty parents who want to groom them for their respective Party at an early age.
If you're truly an independent voter, then this stuff should make you sick to your stomach no matter who's doing it. Just let kids be kids for Christ's sake...
The other day my cousin was reading to our little cousin (age 2). She had read all the typical kids book so she asked him to get her another book to read...and he came back with one of daddy's books (who is a HS civics teacher) - "The 1619 Project!" Funny but really scary at the same time.
The scary thing is why does daddy even have that book in the household?
I hate that book. Normally I'll tell everyone about how the Loyalists were unfairly maligned by history because they lost, but the 1619 Project is a pack of venomous exaggeration that paints all of the Revolutionaries in the same light as the worst of them.
Notice how it is not published in the United Kingdom.
Today, self publishing IS what most people do: just look at YT and Tik Tok. I self published a book, because the niche market would pay 19th century prices to the authors, knowing the authors are a specific minority that wouldn't fight back. Self publishing isn't difficult, but it is a whole lot of work. Where a publishing house has dozens of individuals who handle each aspect of a book's production, the self publisher must do them all; oh, and find the capital to pay for it. The ONLY problem I had was in promoting and selling my book. If you don't have a major publisher behind you, none of the major book sellers would buy them. since I didn't havea a million dollar marketing and advertising budget, again, the book stores wouldn't buy my book. I had on a handful of multibook sales.
I don't say these things to discourage you, but to prepare you. This is a lot of work; more than most folks day jobs. If you don't have the support of a loving family, you might want to consider a different option. Such as, contacting these smaller companies with your finished work, so that half of the work is already completed, and negotiate with them.
My apologies, I cannot discuss my book any farther. This is my incognito account that hides me from some very vicious online stalkers.
Who are these smaller companies that will publish conservative authors?
@Objective Observer Self publishing isn't really a thing for most people. As you say, without the marketing muscle of even an independent publisher, self publishing is little more than vanity press.
@@anonygent The two companies discussed in this video. My apologies for not being succinct. Try submitting your work to The Daily Wire, or ask them who publishes their books.
@@derekspitz9225 I disagree. MOST people are chosing to Self Publish on YT and TikTok, because they would never survive Hollywood. There are numerous Individuals who EARN THEIR LVING off their YT Channels. They work harder on their channels than they did their real jobs, but they love the work and it's flexible.
Yes, you use a 'Vainty Press' who will have the contacts to secure a quality printing of your book, but at a much lower price. Some of them will file your copyrights, and send a copy to the Library of Congress.
Yes, Lazy People will never succeed self publishing. In some niches, self publishing is far more profitable than trying to keep up with dozens of contracts from niche publishers who demand you don't get paid until they publish, then hold a contract for up to 5 years, without publishing the work, and can simply dump the work back in your lap at the end of the contract. Meanwhile, the trend your work was capitalizing on, has passed. These niche publishers do not pay enough for you to secure a manager to handle all those contracts, but they buy infinitely more Niche Content than the Big Name mainstream publishers.
In a Niche Market, the consumer is paying millions every year on their interest and the Content Creators are living below the poverty line... unless they can create quickly and endlessly, and still keep up with their endless number of 'sold' but not paid, contracts, which will far outnumber their paid contracts. Or, they have a day job, and/or a separate income.
The Publishing Industry, in general, is a dog eat dog world, and Lazy people don't succeed in that, either.
@@Objective-Observer "Lazy people"? Wow. You think if a person isn't successful at self publishing they're lazy? What have you ever 'published'? smh ... and chucking stuff up on social media is *not* publishing. That's not even vanity press.
This was incredibly eye opening, great work John!
Here's a wonderful parallel for you conservatives to ponder: the story on Sowell is about a black man rising up and standing out against oppression (teachers didn't believe in his abilities). You conservative authors are claiming to be similarly oppressed (publishers won't publish us, libraries won't carry our books) but guess what: just like Sowell you can rise up, self publish, be a "self made person" and stop bitching about your predicament. If your story is truly great, people will buy your book. You preach the free market, let it decide if you're successful or not. You've identified the problem, now take your own damn medicine and be self made conservative publishers, but if nobody wants to read your books don't bitch that you're being oppressed, you made these rules, live by them.